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    Your favourite bass YouTubers ..

    in General Discussion

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    On 12/03/2024 at 19:36, tobiewharton said:

    There's some great stuff around these days for sure; outstanding playing, teaching and gear reviews can be found easily on the platform.

    A development that I find interesting is that many of the productions have become incredibly slick and perhaps that has become an end in itself?

    Take Jonny Dibble for example - his technique and timing leave a lot to be desired but he seems to personify the modern 'unboxing/gear-review' presenter and is obviously very appealing. I wonder how much of that appeal is due to his skills in knowing the genre and audience, producing and editing chops and investing in top quality gear. An influencer with a bass? 

    Just a thought - maybe it's always been like this!

     

     

    Like every time I try to update a component on my PC or look into using some specific apps for specific purposes, the (prolly sponsored from head to toe) Linus Tech Tips thumbs swarm my results, and all I can see is his dumb "reacts" O-face, in literally anything related to a PC, even though I never clicked on his stuff, as I just can't stand him.

     

    Enter Johnny Dibble when I try to look up anything gear related... 😁

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    Compressor pedals

    in Effects

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    Finally had a few hours to myself to really test it. Unless I mess up the threshold completely, it just sounds good on all settings. Always a bit different, but always good. The sort of great compressor where you can't really hear it, you can just feel it. I only ever had cheap ones before, the difference is amazing.

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    Free, low-resource DAW for recording (only) a live gig

    in Recording

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    I wanted to say Reaper, but I see people are already saing Reaper :)

     

    However your bottleneck will be the storage drive's speed when recording all those tracks that need to be written on your drive. I would not expect a small older Dell laptop to have some crazy fast storage, so you might need some external (USB) drive to plug in and record to that can handle all that I/O. Definitely do some 15-track dry runs to see how it copes with writing multiple files on the fly.

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    "that P-bass sound"

    in General Discussion

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    9 minutes ago, Maude said:

    Yes, is the short answer. All the other nonsense about wood and fairies will follow. 😉

     

    ...but but but if you can't hear the difference immediately between normal and stainless steel frets behind that P, you might as well put the instrument down ;) 

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    "that P-bass sound"

    in General Discussion

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    I grew up listening to my bud playing on his oldskool P. All I can tell you is, my P/J Ibanez sounds pretty Prec-y in the P setting, before and after a pickup change. I guess for the audiophiles, it's not the Fender sounds exactly, but it's as P as it gets. Very, very different when I use the P/J setting.

     

    I also think you can find all sorts of basses in modern music, there is a lot larger selection and most of them are more affordable.

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    November Composition Challenge

    in Recording

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    Inspiration: Halloween is long gone, but the Post-Halloween Prowl is still on! Cheer up, hit the derelict streets, get your digital sweeties, and try to have some fun for once in this wasteland.

     

    Used the Sterling Shortie for this, going through a cheap comp, Tech21 Paradriver and a Rafferty HPF into the Focusrite Scarlett. The high-pitched noise on the bass track is due to recording the single coil pickup, so let's call it an effect!

     

    The drums and the synths are played on the Maschine Mikro. I finger-played the drums and cymbals separately and quantised them, so they can act as the backing track. I routed these to Reaper where I finished recording the bass and the guitar.

     

    I kept the sound simple, there's some minimal EQ, dynamic compression, reverb and limiter.

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    November Composition Challenge

    in Recording

    Posted · Edited by BabyBlueSound

    So I fell into a pretty deep rabbit hole. I wanted to shake up things a bit, and had some ideas for the video part I simply could not do properly in my noob-friendly Filmora, so I started learning to edit in DaVinci Resolve.

     

    This was some pretty bad timing for a great idea.

     

    Now all that time I should be spending on recording the guitar and the synth properly is actually spent on slow but fun colour grading of the half-complete footage (wow my bass finally looks as blue on film as in real life), and toying with keyframes and stuff... 😅 at least the bass is already recorded 🙃

    Compressor pedals

    in Effects

    Posted

    5 minutes ago, ezbass said:

    I must say that my MXR M87 plays really nicely with my Tech21 VTDI.

    That's on the shortlist! It's beautiful but more expensive. I might order both for comparison.

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